October 2021
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
9h 48m
English
If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.
—African proverb
In an emergency, when people need to get pails of water to a fire or sandbags to stop a flood, they may create “bucket brigades,” lines of people passing heavy items. It’s much faster than everyone hauling a single bucket, and it’s a classic example of partnership yielding nonlinear returns. Our shorthand for the multiplier effects from collaboration is “one plus one equals eleven.”
To fight the battle against our environmental and social challenges, we need the rapid expansion of productivity that comes from partnership. No company can make a serious dent in the problems that ...
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